Frisco City voters send 'Jack' Botta and Sue Starr to Oct. 7 runoff

FRISCO CITY, Ala. -- Voters turned out in large numbers Tuesday for a couple of hotly contested races.

In a four-way mayor's race, James "Jack" Botta and Sue Starr wound up ahead of incumbent Jim Cave and into the Oct. 7 runoff. The town of some 1,460 residents tallied 425 votes.

Sylvia Hands won the race for District 1 on the council by a wide margin, Angilou Mixon held her seat in District 2, as did Mary Malone in District 4. Challenger Linda Rowell will face District 5 incumbent Hybart Bohannon Jr. in the runoff, with Rowell having received exactly 50 percent of the vote.
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